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aptitude !

aptitude !

Posted Nov 9, 2007 20:41 UTC (Fri) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091)
In reply to: aptitude ! by vmole
Parent article: The Grumpy Editor's guide to (some) development distributions

Yes, apt-get autoremove works fairly well for removing unwanted packages which were automatically installed. I don't feel so comfortable with aptitude, with its endless lists of packages; for browsing packages I prefer synaptic, even if it's a bit slow, or plain apt-cache.


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